Most webservers I know of will correctly see that you are requesting and downloading 'byte ranges' -- the file gets chopped up in x segments of 1/x size on request of the downloader; also see the 206 partial content directive in http that all download accelerators rely on.

By the way: do not confuse download managers (simple queueing programs) with download accelerators (those chop up the request using byte ranges).

Most webservers I know of will correctly see that you are requesting and downloading 'byte ranges' -- the file gets chopped up in x segments of 1/x size on request of the downloader; also see the '206 partial content' directive in http that all download accelerators rely on.

I know of a few bad eggs in the wild.. horrible bandwidth management practises.

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Originally Posted by DutchDaemon

By the way: do not confuse download managers (simple queueing programs) with download accelerators (those chop up the request using byte ranges).

Sadly, those are pretty much one in the same... many accelerators can be used as simple queueing downloaders, but it's really a murky pond of choices.